\covenant{The Carthian Movement}
{``Tradition is but the illusion of permanence. Change is not just inevitable, it is good.''}
{\desc{Supernatural societies have with necessity been extremely conservative over the generations. And such it was that when the age of enlightenment hit the human world, the supernatural world found itself falling behind. The Carthian Movement was founded as a reform movement for the supernatural world to take advantage of the new ideas and opportunities found in human science. Arranged in a ``cell structure'', the Carthian Movement nominally holds that all of their membership is equal, save for the Revolutionary Committee members themselves who are substantially more equal.}

\desc{The Carthians hold that advancements in human strength and society are, or at least can be, for the good of the supernaturals. Rather than viewing the world as shrinking, leaving them with less and less space in which to hide, the Carthians view the world as growing with more and more humans and cities with which to obscure themselves. The Carthian masquerade is one based largely upon anonymity rather than invisibility.}

\desc{The Carthian Movement appeals to the young (which in supernatural terms means the last 400 years or so), and campaigns for the removal of traditional privileges for the ancient and established monsters of the world. The Carthians favor change and a new way of doing things modeled upon human reforms, but that's about as far as they go in agreeing with one another. It is easy to get the distributed Carthian apparatus to help tear down something or turn upon a criminal, but relatively difficult to pass effective resolutions. The ideological divides amongst the Revolutionary Committee are fierce and hard drawn, so the group as a whole acts rarely and with much debate on matters of anything but immediate survival.}

\desc{As a reformist, ``bottom up'' movement, the Carthians have been able to make great inroads in areas that were previously outside covenants, and toppled several minor ones (such as the Inconnu, the Laibon, and the Kingdom of Yomi). Most impressive of their feats was the dismantling and absorption of the Bumin Horde of Ergenekon. Carthians hold a great deal of territory in China and many former Soviet Republics, and also in much of the American Midwest, Canada, and France.}

\desc{Despite their European origins, or perhaps because of the proximity of their founding to the capital of the Sabbat, the Carthians have made little progress in Western Europe. In 1798 it seemed that the Carthians were on the brink of sacking the Heresiarch Council and ending the Sabbat Church altogether. However, in the coming years the Sabbat made a number of reforms and concessions to various bishops themselves and held onto their European holdings all the way to the Alps. The Carthians ended up signing onto peace and expanding instead into the lands of those covenants that refused to adapt.}}
{18th century CE, Pyrenees Mountains}